"Last Saturday while John Yates and Charley Frazier were riding home from
Crockett, Mr. Yates met with an accident which injured himself and horse
considerably.

Mr. Yates had been smoking a pipe and supposing that he had knocked all the
fire out stuck it in his saddle-riders, which contained among other things,
a pound of powder, which exploded, blowing the horse about four feet
from the road, singeing the hair off of him from head to tail.